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Mobility is the chief concern of this chapter in which we identify some of the elite global circuits that the schools participate in. We show how the schools use the mobilities made possible through prestigious, transnational organizations of elite schools to assist them to produce leaders. And we draw out the details of some students’ itineraries, thereby pointing to students’ variegated geographic mobilities. We argue, in this regard, that the use of the term ‘elite circuits’ can be taken as characteristic of the patterns of mobility that arise in elite schools. It seems that a wealth of opportunities awaits those participating in this elite circuit. We note that elite mobilities are both collectively organized and often collectively beneficial but, at the same time, they do not ensure uninterrupted privileged lives for individual students. They are, furthermore, exclusionary and entangled with subaltern circuits which arise through the moving geographies of the poor, the refugees—those termed by Bauman, ‘vagabonds’ in contrast to the ‘tourists’ of elite mobilities.
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Kenway, J., Fahey, J., Epstein, D., Koh, A., McCarthy, C., Rizvi, F. (2017). Students on the Move. In: Class Choreographies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54961-7_7
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